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What's actually interesting is Gangnam style isn't meant to be some viral money grabbing bullshit. It's political satire about Seoul's Gangnam district, a wealthy neighborhood where the inhabitants often indulge more in luxury than perhaps they should while a large portion of the rest of Seoul stands impoverished.

As in, they're remarkably different from the ones of western chart toppers. Emphasis is on charm, class and restriction, and that these restrictions only allow you to enjoy fun more. From the (admittedly smallish) sample of dance/r'n'b chart toppers I've experienced in various clubs and parties, the focus seemed much more, primal, let's say.

In that single video there is the scene he dresses in a wrap thing in the sauna and leans on the guys shoulder. Doesn't take himself too seriously. The hurricane of confetti that confounds the two dancers beside him while he sings away. Takes his comedy seriously. Using takes of him running out of air as he reemerges from the pool. Fucking hilarious. He uses juxtaposition in the video combined with his own awesome yet ridiculous choreography throughout. Motherfucker is funny as shit and I find myself getting excited and laughing whenever I listen to it, and I am not a happy person.

It's a parody/social critique of people trying to appear as richer/more extravagant facades of what they are. He's constantly doing fancy stuff like being in a resort (sauna with gang members), party bus (filled with middle aged tourists), finding the love of his life (in the subway when he's supposed to be rich), lying in the beach (it's a school playground at the start of the video) and so on.

It represents the intellectual ennui of 18th century France, which at the time was wracked with unrest and uneven distribution of wealth, and in which the national spirit trended towards criticism and skepticism while simultaneously searching for its roots as a post-revolutionary society free from the monarchy but still under the leadership of those such as Napoleon Bonaparte.

It's deep like "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" is deep. Which is to say, not very much. Just because a song has a theme doesn't make it deep. Most pop songs have a "message" that can be dissected to the same degree - it's just that people tend not to listen to the lyrics.

Gangnam is a tony Seoul neighborhood, and Park's "Gangnam Style" video lampoons its self-importance and ostentatious wealth, with Psy playing a clownish caricature of a Gangnam man. That alone makes it practically operatic compared to most K-Pop. But I spoke with two regular observers of Korean culture to find out what I was missing, and it turns out that the video is rich with subtle references that, along with the song itself, suggest a subtext with a surprisingly subversive message about class and wealth in contemporary South Korean society. That message would be awfully mild by American standards -- this is no "Born in the U.S.A." -- but South Korea is a very different place, and it's a big deal that even this gentle social satire is breaking records on Korean pop charts long dominated by cotton candy.

I think context is important here, and in this case the context of the country of origin is important.

I used to. I liked it so much that I had this song as an alarm to wake me up on weekends. I set the alarm for weekdays by accident and it went off in the middle of physics three times. For the next three days, my classmates liked to sing this song every time I entered the room. This song is the bane of my existence.

As someone who lives in Korea...it got old after it you would hear it played in at least 10 places on the walk to work.
Not to mention Gangnam is a shithole of overpriced clubs with overpriced drinks where all the girls are underaged with fake ids. (that's actually true)

Well, isn't that what PSY Is aging the song is supposed to make fun of? That whole glitzy, tacky gangnam ideology? That's what he's saying in all the interviews in the US. But any song will get annoying after being overplayed enough.

As much as I liked Gangnam Style, it is true that is just Korean pop music, catchy while not especially good, with pretty bland lyrics and some humor, yet people keep talking about how much better it is compared to our generic crappy music.

And don't get me wrong, I have nothing against pop music, it's just the hypocrisy that makes me cringe.

I find it pathetic that Psy is this "one hit wonder" in America, and now that it is "mainstream" the obvious hipsters are starting to bandwagon along and give it the status that "it's so popular everyone is going to hate it to oblivion". Psy has been around since the early 2000's and his other works are amazing. Gangnam Style is a great song, but he has other songs that are just as good, if not better. He shouldn't get this one hit wonder treatment that happens to singers in America; personally I think he deserves way more

He's a Korean singer, singing in mainly Korean to an American audience. You can be Debbie Downer all you want but I'm pretty sure Psy and his record company are quite satisfied to be a "one hit wonder" in a market that by standards of logic, he shouldn't even be in.

I find it very unpathetic that you had the exact same thoughts I had about the comments. I was like "Is this guy seriously going to talk about hating hipsters and then right after that talk about how he's been listening to PSY since before he was popular in America?"

Where I live, people who have heard Gangnam Style think they know everything about Kpop and talk about Psy like their his biggest fans. I bring up "Right Now" and no one knows what I'm talking about. I don't mind that he's famous, or that Gangnam Style is kinda overplayed. I just don't like that it's all he's noticed for.

I suspect that the guy really doesn't give a shit anymore. He hasn't been the same since he and the folks behind the show attempted to whitewash everything for the brief stint as 'The Tonight Show'

To be fair, I've never cared for any late-night hosts' monologues. They're always prosaic one liners trying to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. And with social media, they just stretch how awful and corny those monologues are by trying to constantly ingratiate them into tweets and facebook posts. Who the hell knows if it's actually Conan that ever bothers to think or write all the pedestrian garbage that flows from those accounts.

I thought Conan hit a high mark during the stretch of "Late Night" where Andy Richter had left the show and they developed an absurd rapport between Conan, Max Weinberg, and Joel Goddard (the announcer). They've never made it back to that.

To all the overly-sensitive Psy fans: Team Coco is not saying the song is bad, they're just saying it could spark the emergence of a malevolent entity that we will all be forced to worship. I can think of worse fates for humanity. Perhaps it will be a good thing and, therefore, the song is a good thing! All hail Cthulhu.

I'm Korean and I find it hilarious when people get butthurt about PSY not being taken seriously. People, that's just his style and how he works. And Conan is also a brilliant comedian. Some you people just have tight buttholes man. Loosen those buttholes.

Could people please stop lying to me about this kind of sheet! You keep sayin that the ancient god monster is coming, but noooooo, he never does! Fuck all y'all for lying to me! Cthulu better eventually fucking come you bastards! I only got about 50 years left!